Minneapolis teachers union agreement stipulates White teachers be laid off first, regardless of seniority | Fox News
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An agreement between the Minneapolis Teachers Union and the school district states that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority.
The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher strike last spring, says that starting this school year, "if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population."
Excessing teachers is the process by which staff are reduced at a particular school due to a drop in enrollment, funding or other reasons.
The agreement further goes on to say that when reinstating teachers, "the District shall prioritize the recall of a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district."
According to the agreement, the purpose of the policies is to solve for "past discrimination" by the district, which the agreement said "disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the District, as compared to the relevant labor market and the community, and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers."
According to the Star Tribune, 50 teachers of color will be losing their positions this fall due to cuts tied to enrollment losses.
In a summary of the agreement, the union says that the policies will move the district "closer to safe and stable schools."
"Students need educators who look like them and who they can relate to," the document says. "This language gives us the ability to identify and address issues that contribute to disproportionately high turnover of educators of color."
Edward Barlow, a band teacher and member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers executive board told the Star Tribune that the agreement can be a "national model" for finding ways to retain teachers of color.
The agreement states that these policies will no longer be in effect when the diversity of teachers in the district represent that of the community and labor market.
Neither the Minneapolis Public Schools or the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Kelsey Koberg is an Editor with Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to kelsey.koberg@fox.com and on Twitter: @KelseyKoberg.
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I wonder how many teachers think this is fair.
Shouldn't it really be last in, first out?
Is the union representing all teachers equally?
Yes it should.
What it will be is an easy discrimination lawsuit if these racists in Minneapolis ever decides to follow through with it.
The racism is a little on the nose, even for progressives.
Maybe THIS is an example of the racism one of our members here is constantly going on about.
Not fair to the 60 year old white teacher that has taught for 38 years to protect the 24 year old brown teacher that has taught for 2 years. Good news is that the district teachers are 95% white layoff numbers cant grow by that much. Never the less unfair to those that are.
how is that good news ?
What is the "white" population of the districts students? Is it 95%?
If, in the past whites were given hiring preference over teachers of color, which is suggested in the story, why wouldnt it be a good thing to try and rectify that wrong?
Everyone cannot be made happy in situations like this, but to simply accept the status quo is not a good answer either.
But not proven. All racists "suggest" something.
“Not fair to the 60 year old white teacher that has taught for 38 years to protect the 24 year old brown teacher…”
Too many things wrong with that comment to even warrant a response other than to say you are part of the problem.
Sounds like they want to bring back segregation.
Sounds like they want to bring back segregation
That seems like the ultimate goal
This has been going on for decades.
The odd thing is that the people who support it frequently also deny it happens.
The US has 567,000 fewer teachers today than we did before the pandemic.
I doubt anyone in MN was to worry about being laid off, outside of Minneapolis since MN has a huge shortage of teachers in most disciplines also school bus drivers and all the behind the scenes that make the school operate.
The demographics of Minneapolis are as follows.
As of the 2020 Census, the racial composition was as follows:
The enrollment losses are probably flight, Minneapolis has been losing population for decades with people moving from the city to the surrounding suburbs that are mostly white.
For many years in Minnesota teachers of color were not hired.
Exactly, the structural racism runs deep in Minneapolis, this Northern Dem city.
Structural racism runs very deep in North and South Dakota both of which are solid Republican. Namely Fargo, Devils Lake, Bismarck, Rapid City, et al. It also runs deep in Republican cities and counties. Trump won 74 of the 87 counties in MN.
This is only about Minneapolis specifically, as the article indicates.
Yes, and the stats I posted are specifically for Minneapolis with the exception of the nationwide 567,000.
Yippee.